Alarm Clock Gadget Plus is a utility app for iOS and Android that provides alarm, world clock, stopwatch, and timer functions with calendar integration.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Utilities
Sentiment
3.9
341k reviews
Nemesis
Alarmy - Alarm Clock & Sleep
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire this app to manage daily schedules and wake-up routines through a visually customizable interface that replaces standard system clocks.
For Mac and mobile users seeking a highly customizable, integrated time-management and productivity tool.
What does it look like?
Key features
Syncs tasks and schedules from iCal with alarm settings for time management
Provides visual skins and themes for the clock widget interface
Saves frequently used durations for rapid access and simultaneous execution
How much does it cost?
Paid model anchored at $0.99, targeting users seeking a standalone utility without recurring subscription costs.
Velocity
Dormant developmentopaqueShow more...
The app has been effectively abandoned, with no releases recorded since June 2014. The development history shows a long-term trend of inactivity, with the most recent update occurring over 130 months ago. Given the lack of any updates for over a decade, the app is classified as a zombie project.
Who built it?
Sergey Vdovenko
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What do users think recently?
Review voice lately leans mixed. Users appreciate analog clock design and visual customization options provide a pleasant desktop aesthetic for users, but report alarm reliability issues including missed triggers and unexpected auto-dismissal behaviors frustrate daily users.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Analog clock design and visual customization options provide a pleasant desktop aesthetic for users
- Alarm reliability issues including missed triggers and unexpected auto-dismissal behaviors frustrate daily users
63 of 63 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Mixed overall
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Competitive landscape for Alarm Clock Gadget Plus – Clock with Alarm and Calendar
How's the Utilities market?
The app holds a niche position in the Utilities category, recently entering the South Korean market at #198 Free. The paid pricing model creates a competitive disadvantage against system-native clocks that offer higher reliability for free.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Sleep Tracker & Alarm Clock by Delightroom
With over 2 million ratings and a high-frequency release cadence, Alarmy dominates the alarm niche through aggressive gamification and sleep-tracking integration.
- Integrates complex mission-based wake-up tasks like math problems or photo challenges to force user engagement.
- Provides comprehensive sleep analysis and white noise libraries that extend the app beyond simple timekeeping.
- Maintains a high-velocity release schedule with three major updates in the last six months alone.
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Key takeaways for Alarm Clock Gadget Plus – Clock with Alarm and Calendar
Where is it heading?
The utility market is consolidating around high-reliability, system-integrated tools, leaving this app exposed due to its functional regressions. The PM must pivot from feature expansion to core stability to prevent the current churn trend from eroding the remaining user base.
- Persistent alarm reliability failures in the latest release drive negative sentiment, which compounds the churn risk against free system-native alternatives.
- High CPU consumption during background operation causes battery drain, leading users to abandon the app in favor of more efficient system clocks.
The SWOT
- Visual skins provide a distinct desktop interface
- Calendar-alarm workflow offers a productivity-focused utility niche
- Bulk alarm management for routine shifts
- Enhanced security safeguards for alarm deletion
Next best moves
Rebuild background alarm trigger logic because reliability regressions are the top complaint → stabilize retention
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's paid model is not a barrier…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Gamified wake-up tasks (available in Alarmy but absent here) +1
Since the last report: The app shifted to a paid model and is now classified as a zombie project, with critical reliability regressions driving negative user sentiment.
Bottom line
The app maintains a niche appeal through visual customization, but the core alarm utility is failing due to background resource consumption and reliability regressions, so the PM must prioritize stability over new features to prevent further churn to free system alternatives.
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